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Get Featured on "The Sound of KRK" 7-inch Vinyl PLUS Win Awesome New Gear for Your Home...
The Changing Relationships Of Modern Music Production
The Changing Relationships Of Modern Music Production Know your role and understand theirs to optimize studio relationships and results Technological issues have you stressing over your band's new...
5 Pawn Shop Amps That Can Still Melt Faces
There are few things I enjoy more than getting a good bargain on something, especially when that bargain is on music equipment. Maybe I get it from my cheapskate mother. Fortunately, there are a...
How to Book Gigs Between Your Gigs
How to Book Gigs Between Your Gigs Enter GigSalad: The Uber of the Booking World "I just don't need any more gigs." I've never heard that sentiment. Ever. Even in the days when I was playing 250...
Bands, Here Are 3 Reasons Sync Reps Are Ignoring Your Tracks
3 Reasons Sync Reps Are Ignoring Your Tracks If you’ve been trying to get Master/Sync licenses (Syncs) for your music to be used in advertising, games, movies, etc., you’ve probably been dealing...
Try This Fun and Cheap DIY Home Studio Upgrade: The Transformerless SM57 Mod
While perhaps not the most rewarding or necessary of mods that can be made to your home recording setup, this is an interesting one to start with as it's fairly simple, the gear involved is...
It Happened to Me: The Record Label I Was Signed to Went Under
Signing a deal with a record label is often thought of as not just a major step in an artist's career, but a signifier that all the hard work that's been put in has paid off. To put it another way,...
Tour Test Giveaway! Win Audio-Technica’s System 10 Wireless Stompbox & Get Featured in Print!
Attention Bands! Performer's got our grubby little paws on the System 10 Stompbox units featured in the video below, courtesy of our awesome friends at Audio-Technica. ...
The December Issue of Performer Is Here, Featuring Black Violin
This month Performer Magazine presents another in a long line of spectacular issues, featuring Black Violin on the cover. ALSO INSIDE: interviews with Hinds, Good Graeff, and Caustic Casanova. PLUS...
You’re Not a Sellout: Why Independent Artists Should Advertise
I cringe a little bit inside when I hear people say, "Good music will get found." Who knows how or where this myth got started, but even to this day it's prevalent...VERY prevalent. I suspect it has...
Bands, Know Your Data! Or, How Not To Botch an A&R Meeting
A First-Hand Account by Matt Urmy, CEO of Artist Growth Looking back, the outcome of our final meeting could have easily been predicted. However, at the time, I was completely disappointed. Our...